ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,381, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Porous cellulose and method for producing same" was invented by Toru Shibata (Tokyo), Hiromichi Okura (Tokyo) and Yuki Hirabayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is novel porous cellulose having functionality that is not imparted to porous cellulose composed of unsubstituted cellulose, and a method for producing the same. Porous cellulose containing: unsubstituted cellulose; and a glucose unit-containing polymer excluding unsubstituted cellulose, wherein a content of the polymer is not more than 20 mass % in 100 mass % of a total of the polymer and th...